I could feel the eyes upon me before I'd even had a chance to catch my breath. We were in Pochentong Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in the departure area for the afternoon flight to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I was running terribly late, but...

Six hundred years ago, when Cambodia was ruled by magic and not by guns, Old Lady Penh pulled a tree trunk out of a rain-swollen river and found five miraculous statues of Buddha nestled inside it. She carried them to the top of a little hill not far...

As struggling Cambodia pulls itself out of decades of war and turmoil, it is beginning to look for ways to have a good time, and the handful of hardy foreign tourists are welcome to join in. New attractions are appearing all the time. Phnom...